The Past Tense

Aug 12, 2020

1h 6m

★ 6.9

Time travel costs money... Rooney wants it back.

Overview

James Moore is on the verge of a breakthrough, time travel. But time travel doesn't come cheap, and the bank won't help - so James turns to loan shark Rooney Wagner for help. Now, Rooney wants his money and there's none to give.

Genres

Science Fiction

Comedy

Production Companies

IndyRed

The Past Tense Trailers

Cast

Rooney Wagner

Dan Bertolini

Will

Steve Kasan

Milt

Darrin Drugan

Jay

Phi Huynh

Boombox Man

Tazito Garcia

Angry Dude

Sam Asante

James Moore

William Conrad

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

7.1

My Future Love

Nov 11, 2016

In 1973, the 20-year-old Svante has a heart condition that the doctors cannot fix. When he has a breakdown on a subway platform, a strange train suddenly appears. He steps into the subway car filled with wonder, without knowing that the destination is the future. In the future he meets Elsa and together they must solve Svante's problems and figure out how to live together when they are from two different eras.

4.9

Norman

Feb 2, 2021

A time traveler, Norman, and his A.I. companion, A.N.I., become trapped and isolated in the past, jeopardizing life in both the past and the future. They must invent a way back to the future before the world collapses.

1.0

Visiting Van Gogh

Oct 10, 1985

In the 22nd Century, antiquities command huge prices. A woman uses a time machine to travel back the the 19th Century in order to buy paintings from Vincent Van Gogh before he was famous. Will she be wealthy upon her return?

5.7

Frankenstein Unbound

Nov 2, 1990

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.

10.0

Un día por Málaga

Jun 26, 2024

Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first documentary filmed in Andalusia to its first screening.

2.0

Eizu o buttobase: Momoiro puttsun musume

Apr 15, 1987

During the Edo period, an incident occurred in a certain castle town where young samurai were weakened and died one after another. Suspicious, the chief retainer investigates and discovers that a beautiful princess named Tsukihime is giving her body to the young samurai every night and spreading her own disease. The chief retainer trapped Tsukihime in a pot with the help of a monk who used his magic powers and sank her into a pond, but when a female ninja servant came to rescue the princess, a huge earthquake struck. The princess and the kunoichi travel forward in time. There is a lot of fuss about AIDS in the streets as a strange disease of modern times. At one company, a situation was occurring in which employees were collapsing one after another. Tsukihime and Kuichi appear and cause a huge commotion.

5.4

Millennium

Aug 25, 1989

An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

3.8

Clockmaker

Aug 18, 1998

Fourteen-year-old Henry and his friends are about to change history. Sneaking into the apartment of an eccentric Clockmaker, the kids discover that the old man controls time for the entire world through an incredible array of magnificent timepieces and weird machines. When one of the curious kids accidentally pushes a wrong button and gets launched back in time, the space-time continuum is severely disrupted. As everything begins to change around them, the young adventurers must travel back in time to save their friend...and the future

6.5

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime

Apr 24, 1968

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.

5.3

Three Crazy Jerks II

Jun 30, 1988

In 2043, Frank and Xaver have only one big problem with their jobs at a patent office, their boss Dr. Kneitz who's mission it is to make their life miserable. But then an unique opportunity presents itself when an inventor shows up to patent a time machine and they come up with a plan to travel back in time to stop the conceiving of their boss. Accidently Ronny, a night watchman, happens to be in the room with them when they use the time machine and so, in part unwillingly, the 3 of them travel to the year 1988 in Gran Canaria and they only have a couple of days to stop every interaction with potential fathers for the mother to be.

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1.0

Time Quest

Dec 31, 2014

The year is 2047. Humanity is on the verge of extinction. One man has been chosen to be the first to attempt time travel. The only chance for survival rests on his shoulders. However, he has other plans.

5.2

Southland Tales

Nov 14, 2007

Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

7.4

Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death

Mar 26, 1999

Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.

5.9

Trancers

Nov 7, 1984

Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.

6.5

Returner

Aug 31, 2002

A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.

6.3

Click

Jun 23, 2006

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

0.0

Parallel Consequences

Feb 13, 2025

Max and his friends, Pedro and Bruna, discover a time machine and decide to test it. What begins as an adventure quickly turns into a nightmare when Pedro inexplicably tries to kill Max, who must repeatedly travel back a few seconds in time to survive and uncover the truth. Caught in an unstable timeline, the three friends confront dark truths about themselves, the weight of their choices, and the unpredictable consequences of trying to rewrite destiny.